[crossfire] Am interested in porting to Mac

[Brendan Lally]

On Thursday 11 Aug 2005 00:25, Amorya North wrote:
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      I'm interested in porting Crossfire to MacOS.
     
     
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      If I go ahead with this, I'll write the client in Objective-C using
     
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      the Cocoa API. Hopefully I'll be able to reuse some of the backend
     
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      code (such as packet parsing) by wrapping it in an objective-C
     
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      object. That does depend on my learning exactly how the existing
     
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      client works though!
     
     
In theory all C code compiles to objective C as well. (I say in theory, I have 
never tried it in practise).

If this is so, it should be sufficiant to take the common/ directory, and 
compile the C files there as if they were objective C and then add a cocoa/ 
directory to replace the functions provided by the existing x, gtk and gtk2 
libraries.

This should be easier than writing from the ground up, the common/ directory 
deals with things like command parsing, metaserver communications, client 
scripting, and various other bits too.

alternitively, you might want to speak to techII who has a python client in 
some state of existance, it might be easier to go over that and replace the 
api calls with cocoa equivilents.

And yes, I am aware that what I suggest is not the way that it is supposed to 
be done, but it is one that would probably work if your Makefile-fu is strong 
enough.